U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dies aged 79

The leading conservative jurist of the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia, has today (February 13) been found dead at the age of 79.

Gay Star News reports that Scalia has been on the high bench since 1986, making him the longest serving member on the current court.

Scalia was strongly opposed on the topic of LGBTI equality, calling the 5-4 ruling that made same-sex marriage legal in all 50 U.S. states a “threat to American democracy.”

”[The ruling] says that my ruler and the ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court,” he said.

Although he once stated that gays were “an invented minority”, Scalia insisted that his comments were never anti-LGBTI.

“Don’t paint me as anti-gay or anti-abortion or anything else. All I’m doing on the Supreme Court is opining about who should decide,” he told during an appearance at George Washington University last year.

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